era.int IMPROVING CONDITIONS RELATED TO DETENTION THE ROLE OF THE ECHR, THE STRASBOURG COURT AND NATIONAL COURTS Strasbourg, 6-7 November 2014 Council of Europe, Palais de l’Europe Avenue de l’Europe, Strasbourg, France Organiser: ERA (Ramin Farinpour) in cooperation with Fair Trials International (FTI), the Council of Europe and the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services (EuroPris) Co-funded by the Criminal Justice Programme of the European Union Language: English Event number: 314DT106 Objective This first seminar in a series of three will analyse the roles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as that of national courts, in improving conditions related to detention. Key topics Overview of relevant ECHR articles Case law of the European Court of Human Rights and national courts on issues related to detention Issues related to pre-trial detention Best judicial practice in improving matters related to detention Mutual trust and mutual recognition of judicial decisions relating to detention amongst EU Member States: the effect of Council Framework Decisions 2008/909/JHA and 2008/947/JHA (mutual recognition of judgements, custodial sentences and probation decisions) and 2009/829/JHA (European Supervision Order) and the 2014 European Commission report on their implementation, as well as the European Arrest Warrant Who should attend? Judges, prosecutors, lawyers in private practice, ministry officials and officials from prison administrations, the probation system and prison monitoring bodies. For further information Karin Pietrowski E-mail: [email protected] Tel. +49 (0)651 937 37 323 Fax. +49 (0)651 937 37 791 Online registration: www.era.int Speakers Jesca Beneder, Legal Officer, Procedural Criminal Law Unit, Directorate-General for Justice, European Commission, Brussels Philippe Boillat, Director General, Directorate General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Council of Europe, Strasbourg Vincent De Gaetano, Chief Justice Emeritus of Malta, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg Ramin Farinpour, Course Director, European Criminal Law, ERA, Trier Diana-Olivia Hatneanu, Lawyer, Diana-Olivia Hatneanu Law Office, Bucharest Libby McVeigh, Head of Law Reform, Fair Trials International, London Deirdre Malone*, Irish Penal Reform Trust, Dublin Michaël Meysman, Doctoral Researcher, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University Luis Pereira, Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Lisbon Appeal Court Alessio Scandurra, Coordinator, Antigone (Observatory on Prison Conditions in Italy), Rome Rebecca Shaeffer, Law Reform Officer, Fair Trials International, London Dominique Tricaud, Lawyer, Tricaud-Traynard, Paris Dirk van Zyl Smit, Professor, School of Law, University of Nottingham *Invited Education and Culture DG Erasmus + Programme ERA is funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the view only of the author, and the commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of information contained therein.